The fo·urth Commandement• . Rememlter that thou k!epe'holy the Sa6lult~ day. Sixe d~tiesjhtill tb 911 .ja[, 111 r, Anddoe"lt that thou haff to doe, bMt the fouenth · RAJ u the S~tbht~th oftheLordthyGod; in it, thiNfoAI_ttltJit• ma•ner ojw1rk!, Thou~or,&. ,' · ::::oor..;:;;~~~-=He purpofe.ofGod in this fourth Com– R.-.. .r.., .. I mandement, ii, to teach·vs, to fee apart J rhe fcuenth day wholly,from al worldly ·1affaires, to the exercifes ofreligion :and I mercy. The parts are two. The one fets w~~l downe the duties tobe performed; the --·- __ . other the reaf6s eo moue ·vs to pcrforme th~m. The dudes cwo-fold: What we 01ould doe, and.from what we 01ould dedi11e. The thing to be done,is, keeping it holy, celebrating an holy refi vnto God. The things to bee forbornc,are>all worldlyw01kes in ourfelues,:\nd thofethat belong vnto vs, as children, feruants, and all inferiors, and that our bcaHs be uot put to any feruil e labour, yea, that the .. Arang(.'r, when hee comes amongtl vs, doeno~openJypro– phane the fame. Though V'Je cannot enforce him to c•me to the publike exercifes, yet 'thofe that are rulers, and gouer– mours, muff retlraiue him from openviolatingofit, bywor– king or any fuch like diforder, and mufllay th_eir authoritie ~ofarre vpon him, as that they fufier him not, am9ng their · people,and ita theiriurifdillion, in the faceof the ·Congre- ~ ' ' , .. ' ·' . ' • p~rion, to breake the Commandement. · · · The rcafons are diuers: Fir!l, drawnefr9m the t>quitie ~earb;r ~ndrlghteoufne(fe ofit,in thefewords; Six aay~s foalt thONija~~n ~i , ·lt~/Jour,Anddoall that tho~hafltoJ,, Asifhehad faid, I h~u~· btt1e'S~b- . h c d' • r' ' k f b . ,h. , / athw~y. -gt:u~n t ee 11X ates1or tne wor es o t . ycalhng, and · aut P~ril.fr?m . ·~taken but o~f for my (elfe :.therefore ·th~b mutlbeve.rywel thee~utry . contented, ~~yeeld tome 1n thiJ forea.fonableandequall a · " I dutie.
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